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cyclorama|saɪkləˈrɑːmə|
[mod.f. Gr. κύκλος circle + ὅραµα spectacle.]
1. A picture of a landscape or scene arranged on the inside of a cylindrical surface, the spectator standing in the middle.
1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 191 The panorama forms the surface of a hollow cylinder..(whence it is..called..cyclorama). 1849(title), Description of the Royal Cyclorama..Regents Park, opened in 1848. 1888Pall Mall G. 25 June 11/1 The cyclorama [of Niagara] which has ‘fetched’ all London.
2. Theatr. A large backcloth or wall, freq. curved, at the back of a stage, used esp. to represent the sky.
1915H. K. Moderwell Theatre To-Day ii. 52 The ‘skydrops’..have been replaced..by an invention that makes a natural landscape possible. This is the ‘Horizont’, which we may name for the purpose a cyclorama. 1930Observer 18 May 11/2 The stage will have unique features, including an artificial horizon or cyclorama. 1957Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 2) 173 The cyclorama is, in essence, a curved wall, or section of a dome, built at the back of the stage, and demanding one quality—an absolutely unbroken surface. 1958W. T. O'Dea Social Hist. Lighting vii. 166 In 1902 the first attempts were made to produce coloured sky effects by coloured light only, the ‘cyclorama’ being installed by Mariano Fortuny at the Scala Opera House in Milan. The cyclorama, which is a smooth, light-coloured surface the full height and width of the stage, can also be used for optical projection of scenery and effects, but it must not be in the path of any illumination other than that deliberately cast upon it.
Hence cycloˈramic a.
1886Appleton's Ann. Cycl. 278 (in Cent. Dict.) The laws of cycloramic perspective. |